Students Enemy
Going to college makes your future less complicated, yet there are a bunch of reasons why students drop out. The number one reason is because school is not interesting and can be hell to some students. There is many ways to keep a student from succeeding. To help America become a better place, they need the next generation to overcome any obstacle and it depends on those students that are in school at this very moment. In order to capture a student’s interest and help them succeed it would be best to have them feel at ease by understanding what keeps them from accomplishing their goals in life.
According to a new study, five times as many high school students are dealing with anxiety and other mental health issues as youth of the same age who were studied in the Great Depression Era. There are two types of stress, good and bad. However, too much stress adds difficult challenges to one’s life. It can come from a variety of sources like meeting the expectations from their parents, teachers, or coaches. Also, from doing well in school to their social life. School takes up a lot of time, so do sports, and one’s social life. Students today try to balance all these things. A study has been done, 5 universities went through responses of 77,576 high school or college students that took the MMPI from 1938 to 2007. According to the results, hypomania went from 5% to 31% and depression went from 1% to 6%. By now the percentages have increased over the years. Coaches expect students to give it all they have and to stay committed. Teachers expect students to learn and to pass their class. Society expects you to have a unique personality and style. Soon enough, students feel like they’re not good enough and get extremely stressed...
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...ir goals in life. Stress is something that can get out of control. Bullying is what makes stress worse. Doing simple things and changing others can help students feel at ease. When all the weight of the stress you were carrying and all the problems go away, school would actually become interesting.
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In today's society, much of America's high schools and colleges have put athletics on a pedestal. Kids who have high academic achievements are nothing compared to successful athletes. In “America Needs Its Nerds”, Leonid Friedman acknowledges this unfair imbalance and decides that it's time to change the way nerds or geeks are viewed by society. Fridman develops his argument over why nerds should be held higher by using a shift of tones, compare and contrast, and figurative language.
Going to college gives students the chance to step out of their comfort zone, try new things, and discover who they are while pursuing a degree that may, or may not, interest them. In today’s world if a student drops out of college society assumes they are unintelligent, while in reality they could have come to the realization that being amazing at a trade job is better than being mediocre at a desk job. There has to be a way for students to want to finish college and find what they are learning interesting. If something doesn’t change, the system of postsecondary education will become a thing of the
American culture has evolved, and Society tends to ostracize people for their intelligence, and our culture has been giving these intellectuals derogatory names like nerd and geek. Leonid Fridman believes that these anti- intellectual values that pervade our society must be fought and should stop for the sake of America. The author supports this position in the passage “America Needs It’s Nerds” through the use of rhetoric by giving definitions of terms such as geek, offering comparisons through juxtaposition, adding a tone shift, and posing rhetorical questions to the reader.
College students drop out of school because the classes are too hard, students are too lazy, and do not go to class, or there partying too much and not enough studying. Look, college is hard enough for those that are motivated. According to Ivory Tower Arizona State University, the number one party school in the United States has 76,000 students enroll in ASU per year. Which means there are around 240 students in a lecture hall while there are only 40% facility on campus. Students do not do well in college and want to drop out because the class room size is way too big and the college is short staffed. When you go to a big college with 240 students in a class you are just a number to the professor because he is not going to try to remember your name or try to help you pass the class. He is just there to teach and get paid. In college students study less than 5 hours a week and that is less than an hour a day. In a semester class students write less than 20 pages of notes. Since, students are not motivated in studying for school that causes the students to fail tests which leads to failing the class which leads to lowing there GPA and also the college GPA and that leads to students dropping out of college. The Ivory Tower states in 4 years 68% of college students drop out. Every University that has a lecture hall during the first week of orientation the professor says to the students look to you left and look to your right because only one of you are going to be here in the end the rest are going to drop out of the class or even drop out of college. Students are not motivated in learning the material are they want are blow off classes so they can pass the class with little or no effort that they got to put in.
It seems as though the majority of college students these days aren’t looking to further their education because it’s what they really want, they do it to please their parents, to be accepted by society, or because there’s nothing else for them to do (Bird, 372). These expectations have led to students being unhappy and stressed, and have pushed them into a school or a job that they don’t particularly care for.
Sometimes students question themselves if college is really worth it? That question has many answers that only a student can answer and decide for him or herself. For some students college can have a positive, life-long outcome. However, there are many obstacles when it comes to college. A student has to be very dedicated in school, and they have to know how to manage their personal life, school and work. College seems like it has more negative effects than it does positive for some people. For the following reasons college is not worth the cost because it is very difficult to find jobs after graduating or they find a job that is not in their field, some students who are not academically prepared wind up dropping out of school and wasting their money and some students struggle to balance school life, personal life and work life. As a result these students end up dropping out of school.
The United States is a country focused on bettering an opponent, but some people aren’t cut out for the constant competition. Those members of society seem to be left in the dust and expected to fend for themselves. Because of the pressures being placed on Americans, it is almost natural to constantly search for a sense of comfort and relaxation. A variety of coping methods have been published in books and articles by psychiatrists, but the audience in which they are written for is rapidly expanding to younger generations. People too often make the assumption that damaging amounts of stress do not surface until college and early adulthood, but studies over the past five years show that stress takes an overwhelming toll on high school students.
In recent years, it has become a well noted fact that the education system has become in many ways tougher, for better or for worse. Nevertheless, for anyone susceptible to an anxiety disorder, school often aggravates their symptoms. Today over 10 per-cent of European and American citizens suffer from an anxiety disorder, and it is an even greater number among young people (Points of View: FEAR NOT). As English-speaking countries move forward through time, testing becomes more stressful and more competitive, it should be expected that anxiety will increase. As well, according to Psychology Today the “[a]verage high school student [in the United States] has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the early 1950s” (Psychology Today: How Big a Problem is Anxiety Today). This is logical considering that a similar study done in 2010 concluded that high school and college students were more than five times as likely to develop either depression or an anxiety disorder than a student fifty years ago (Psychology Today: The Decline of Play and the Rise of Children's Mental Disorders?). This excessive rise exemplifies the amount of stress students have. As the years pass, it is becoming increasingly evident that anxiety disorder is prevalent among a majority...
When they drop out, they limit their opportunities and waste the money that was invested into them. There are opportunities available to students to obtain a free education and avoid financial hardships. Once students get into college they must stay focused on their education and perform to the best of their abilities to avoid remedial classes and graduate in the shortest time possible without debt. Once the student receives their degree they can take advantage of a wide variety opportunities available to those with a degree. By obtaining their degree students are taking advantage of the money that has been invested in them. All students to avoid situations that cause a lot of students to dropout from college. Students should take advantage of the opportunities given to them so they do not waste the money that others have invested in
As high school students, most of us were taught the dream of going to college from the importance that it has. The real life examples from our friends teach us the importance of going to college. If you drop out of college you may lose yourself, your family, and your friends. One of my friends dropped out of college because he had a bad friendship. So, they convinced him not to go to the school, but when he grew up he realized that the college was the most important thing in his life. Even though we know that “college is the best thing”, why we drop out of college? That fact is that we drop out from the college for many reasons.
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High school can be tough for many teenagers. Some students may feel as if the classes they are taking are boring or the material being taught will not help them later on in life. These students begin to not show up for class and then their grades start lowering drastically. Next, these students come up with the idea that dropping out is the easiest and fastest way to escape all the stress that is caused by academics. However, they need to start looking at the bigger picture and asking themselves if quitting school is going to help them reach their personal goals. Most people want to live a life filled with laughter and have the least amount of trouble as possible. Dropping out of high school will not bring joy to anyone, it will only affect the dropout and also our society in a negative way.
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